Good morning! Happy Days, They’re getting are Getting Longer ☀️! Next Tuesday is Cold Moon 🌕. Mostly cloudy and 27 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. There are 15 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 10 am. 🌡️

Today will have patchy fog before 10am. Patchy freezing fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy ⛅ , with a high of 38 degrees at 1pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 10th. Light west wind becoming northwest 9 to 14 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 34 degrees. The record high of 60 was set in 1990. 12.3 inches of snow fell back in 1969.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:55 am with sun having an altitude of 23.9° from the due south horizon (-46.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 13.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:41 pm with the sun in the southwest (230°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (238°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:26 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 25 seconds with dusk around 4:57 pm, which is 31 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the southeast (146°) at an altitude of 42° from the horizon, 250,677 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:34 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 36 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 14 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daytime, an increase of 3 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 22 degrees at 5am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 14th. Maximum wind chill around 14 at 6am; Northwest wind 9 to 14 mph. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 18 degrees. The record low of -12 occurred back in 1955.

After the rain on Christmas Eve and snow 🌨 on Christmas, cold but sunny for the weekend. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 27. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 32. Typical average high for the weekend is 33 degrees.

As previously noted, next Tuesday is Cold Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 4:30 pm with dusk at 5:02 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain and temperatures between 41 and 26 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 32 degrees. We hit a record high of 71 back in 1984.